neoimpressionism
nounEtymology From neo- + impressionism.
1
A genre of French impressionist art that used pointillism to achieve a more formal composition.
- The method, variously called pointillism, divisionism (separated colours) or neoimpressionism, is especially effective in the half-dozen monumental paintings Seurat considered his toiles de lutte (battle-canvases). […] Neoimpressionism quickly divided viewers: did it herald an abstract future or was it a dry, formulaic dead end?2025 September 13, Jackie Wullschläger, “Portal to an abstract future or dry dead end?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:
- Derived terms
- neoimpressionist
- Related terms
- postimpressionism